HI Michelle, This is the area of LARGEST growth around the world for IxD. That is not what I was speaking about. What I was speaking about is the critical mass of practitioners to create and maintain a community of practice around. I hope this isn't really true, but I do feel like I have a pretty good sense of the pulse of the east coast IxD community. There are maybe 3 or 4 agencies worth a hoot with substantial IxD practices between DC and Boston, and well we all know there is like NO! Nada! None! education community on the east coast outside of CMU in IxD, except for the bachelor program out of Savannah that has a minor in IxD as part of their ID program.
But back to your point. There are lots of hardware companies I can think of on the EC that have IxD: Bose, Boston Science, Respironics, Motorola EMb, to name a few, but in total this is nothing compared to the number of practitioners who are doing pure software/web (is there really a difference anymore?) split between informatics (marketing, and other information management tools) and task based software. But the highest growth need right now for IxD is definitely, IMHO, not just embedded, but straight hardware IxD as well. So I agree w/ you, but I don't think you are addressing the issue of "critical mass" the way I meant the term. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24209 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
